Reality operates through paradox—simultaneously everything and nothing, connected yet divided. The most revealing truth? People project their own nature onto their enemies. The left accuses the right of exactly what it does itself: institutional control, hatred, and power obsession. Modern civilization's greatest hypocrisy? Proudly championing "human rights" while systematically dehumanizing its population into interchangeable cogs. This isn't a bug—it's industrial society's primary function and underlying purpose.
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Bibliography:
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzche
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Gulag Archipelago by Solzenitsyn
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
Humanity's Ascent by Charles Eisenstein
The Unabomber's Manifesto
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
Das Kapital by Karl Marx
Universe 65 by Calhoun
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
Nihilism by Seraphim Rose
The Passion of the Western Mind by Tarnas
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Seeing like a State by James Scott
The Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
Atrocities by Matthew White
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
The History of Philosophy by Will Durant
The History of Philosophy by Bertrand Rusell
The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt
